Senior Software Engineer, Salesforce
World's leading CRM provider
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World's leading CRM provider
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years (Senior) / 8+ years (Lead) of hands-on software development experience with strong programming skills in Python and/or Go
- Proven experience in building and maintaining scalable, distributed systems and microservices
- Mandatory hands-on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and management
- Expertise with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform for cloud automation
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS (GCP/Azure is a plus)
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and version control systems like Git
- Strong grasp of software design principles, coding standards and testing frameworks (unit and integration testing)
- Ability to debug, troubleshoot, and optimize software systems for performance and reliability
- Nice to have: Experience with AI/ML technologies and their integration into platform services
- Ability to collaborate effectively with global teams and work in an Agile environment
- Strong communication and leadership skills (especially for Lead-level candidates)
- The ideal candidates will have strong software development expertise, experience with Kubernetes and cloud technologies, and the ability to solve complex engineering problems
What the job involves
- We are hiring passionate Software Engineers (Senior and Lead levels) for the Platform Engineering team
- The role involves designing, developing, and managing highly scalable, distributed platform services that empower engineering teams and ensure system reliability, scalability, and high-availability
- Design, develop, and optimize platform solutions using Python and/or Go to address key challenges in scalability, reliability, and automation
- Architect, build, and manage distributed systems and cloud-native applications
- Deploy, monitor, and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and CI/CD pipelines using tools like Terraform
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions aligned with business needs
- Drive software development best practices, including code quality, testing strategies, and design patterns
- Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and optimize system performance
- Mentor team members and lead high value initiatives
- Participate actively in Agile processes, including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Platform Engineering plays a crucial role in the Availability/Infrastructure Engineering organization, empowering development teams to easily assess product availability, promptly detect system disruptions and provide actionable insights into customer impact
- This team owns platforms that support all key pillars of observability, reliability and availability
- We create abstraction layers to simplify service ownership complexities and collaborate with development teams on cross-cutting initiatives to deliver dependable, high-performing systems and experiences for our customers
Our take
Salesforce is a global cloud computing company, best known for its on-demand, comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) solutions. The company was launched to mitigate the doubts that business owners felt regarding third party companies holding their data.
By providing essential, customer-oriented CRM software, Salesforce places itself at the heart of digitised businesses. Furthermore, by building out its AI capabilities, the company removes the complexity of AI, enabling any business to deliver smarter, personalised and more predictive customer experiences.
Due to the continued innovation offered by the company, over 150,000 companies, both big and small, are growing their business with Salesforce today. Despite a tumultuous 2023 filled with activist investors, a boardroom shake-up and the unprecedented step-down of Co-CEO Bret Taylor, Salesforce continues to close several acquisition deals and managed to drive up its stock value by 96% from the end of 2022 to 2023.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2001
$46.9m
SERIES D
Nov 1999
$13.2m
SERIES C
Total funding: $64.5m
Company values
- Trust - We earn the trust of our customers, employees, and extended family through transparency, security, compliance, privacy, and performance. And we deliver the industry’s most trusted infrastructure
- Customer Success - So we champion them to achieve extraordinary things. We innovate and expand our business offerings to provide all our stakeholders with new avenues to achieve ever greater success
- Innovation - Our customers’ input helps us develop products that best serve their business needs. Providing continual technology releases and new initiatives gives our customers a competitive advantage
- Equality - We believe everyone should be seen, heard, valued, and empowered to succeed. Hearing diverse perspectives fuels innovation, deepens connections between people, and makes us a better company
- Sustainability – We are committed to bringing the full power of Salesforce to accelerate the world’s journey to net zero
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Marc Benioff
(Chair & CEO)Previously Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation for 13 years.
Parker Harris
(CTO)Previously worked as a Software Engineer for over six years. Harris also co-founded Left Coast Software.
People progressing
Joined as Recruiting Director - Futureforce University Recruiting, EMEA, and was promoted to Senior Director - EMEA & LATAM Recruiting, Futureforce after 3 years, and then again to Senior Director - Recruiting after 2 years. Now serve as COO - Employee Success EMEA.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Salesforce
- Our goals:
- 50% of our U.S. employees will be made up of underrepresented groups (Women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Multiracial, LGBTQ+ employees, People with Disabilities, and Veterans) by 2023
- Double the U.S. representation of Black leaders (VP+) and increase our representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) leaders by 50% by 2023
- 50% increase our U.S. representation of underrepresented minority (Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and Multiracial) employees by 50% by 2023
- We’ve met our representation goal nearly a full year early – today, 50.7% of our U.S. employees are members of underrepresented groups
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